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#v art #pixel art #Sword Art Online #SAO Abridged #Kirito Kirigaya #Asuna Yuuki #Let Me Introduce You to My Fandom Exchange #I've never read/seen Sword Art Online but now I've seen some of the abridged series! #I'm actually really proud of how this one turned out!

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Polly deserves to do more blackmail, as a treat

#v thinks #Classic Who #Second Doctor #Polly Wright #she can be fun! that time she blackmailed Ffinch was amazing but for the most part she's just been screaming and doing less than nothing #three companions is really too many I'm looking forward to the point when it'll just be the Doctor and Jamie

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[Cthulhu] squatted evilly on a rectangular block or pedestal covered with undecipherable characters

#v thinks #The Call of Cthulhu #HP Lovecraft #that's how you know he's really evil; he sits (evilly) #the story has some fascinating mythology but is also unfortunately very racist (it takes a little while to show up but when it does...)

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Today on Doctor Who...

Atlantis???

#v thinks #Classic Who #Second Doctor #The Underwater Menace #it sure is something... #I admit most of the costumes weren't quite this fabulous but these fish people were the best of a very silly lot

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Uther Pendragon, the conqueror, died leaving only a daughter to succeed him. And thus the young Queen Guenevere ascended to the throne. Uther Pendragon was a warlike king, and his daughter took after him in spirit, though she was not trained to lead the charge as a son would have been.

In those days, even a warlike queen—and perhaps especially a warlike one—was regarded with mistrust, and no sooner had the King’s body been laid to rest, then there was a cry for the new Queen to find a husband. But with the fearsome pride of her father, Queen Guenevere refused to surrender herself to any noble lord or prince—and perhaps wisely so, for favoring one house would mean making an enemy of all the rest.

At last, Merlyn, the renowned sorcerer, proposed a solution: an enchanted sword embedded in a stone, and who-so-ever proved himself worthy by successfully pulling it free would have the Queen to wed. The Queen called a great tournament, which drew every knight in the land to fight and to test the sword in the stone. Among them was the newly knighted Sir Kay, and with the young Sir Kay came his squire, Arthur.

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#v writes #The Once and Future King #Arthuriana #Queen Guinevere #King Arthur #Lancelot du Lac #Arthur x Lancelot x Guinevere #I wrote a little something! #I wanted to give Guenevere a bit more to do and I think she deserves to be in charge as a treat #and I think Arthur works well as the voice of the common people given his background in The Once and Future King #Arthur is probably not also secretly the son of Uther Pendragon in this AU though it would also suit the Arthurian narrative if he was #doomed by the narrative to marry the sister he doesn't know about and have Mordred though I'd hope they'd be better parents than Morgause

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I've pondered some possibilities, but unfortunately nothing that quite forms a cohesive whole:

The repressed Dr. Jekyll (and to a lesser extent his friends) is a prime candidate for seduction by Count Dracula (but ??? how Hyde fits in...)

Victor Frankenstein could be a former student of Dr. Van Helsing, maybe he goes to his old teacher when everything goes awry, drawing the vampire hunting squad into it

Dorian Gray would make a pretty excellent vampire, though I'm not sure how that would tie into the portrait, but maybe it could lead to some kind of mystery about how/why he's changed?

Victor Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll could bond over some mad science, maybe Frankenstein would be inspired to try to use Jekyll's serum to "fix" things making everything worse

Lord Henry is just the kind of person to inadvertently encourage Dr. Jekyll in all the wrong directions with his incoherent philosophizing

Basil Hayward, Dr. Seward, Victor Frankenstein, and Gabriel Utterson are all pretty awkward, I bet they'd get along well

I love the idea of a transfem Victor(ia) Frankenstein bonding with Mina and Lucy

The impulse to do a crossover of all the Victorian horror novels is a strong one, and I got to wondering how they might intersect...

#v thinks #Dracula #Frankenstein #Jekyll and Hyde #Dorian Gray #the ultimate Victorian horror crossover! #there really is so much potential! #if I were more inclined toward serialized storytelling maybe...

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The little boy kneeled down to kiss his master's hand—his surcoat, with the Malory bearings, looking absurdly new.

Thomas Malory... the author of Le Morte d'Arthur... I see what you did there

#v thinks #The Once and Future King #Le Morte d'Arthur #Arthuriana #The question is if I wrote fic about King Arthur's page Tom Malory would it count as RPF...?

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That's right. Now give me a hand each, both of you, and I shall sit between you like this. There. My Queen and my Lance

Arthur is so dear with both of them <3

#v thinks #The Once and Future King #Arthuriana #King Arthur #Lancelot du Lac #Queen Guinevere #Arthur x Lancelot x Guinevere #closing the eternal triangle #Lancelot and Guenevere are both awkward about it but Arthur knows and loves them both <3 #they're cute old people in love

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The King put his hand on Lancelot's knee and squeezed it affectionately. "Some people might say that you are the dear," he said.

After the whole long to do of Lancelot and Guenevere (and a 20-year timeskip), we're finally back to Arthur!

#v thinks #The Once and Future King #Arthuriana #Lancelot du Lac #King Arthur #Arthur x Lancelot #the Lancelot/Guenevere saga really was such a slog... though it was nice getting a bit of added perspective with how young everyone was

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[It was] hardest of all to have broken his body for the older man's ideal, only to find this mincing wife stepping in at the end of it to snatch away his love at no cost at all. Lancelot was jealous of Guenever, and he was ashamed of himself for being so.

And here I thought it was being feudal and poetic, but no, Lancelot is canonically romantically in love with King Arthur!

#v thinks #The Once and Future King #Arthuriana #Lancelot du Lac #Arthur x Lancelot #I believe it goes without saying that I ship it!

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He had already fallen in love with Arthur on the night of the wedding feast, and he carried with him in his heart to France the picture of that bright northern king, at supper, flushed and glorious from his wars.

But wait, there's more!

#v thinks #The Once and Future King #Arthuriana #Lancelot du Lac #Arthur x Lancelot #if this section keeps on like this I'm going to be posting every few paragraphs...

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Lancelot, swinging his dumb-bells fiercely and making his wordless noise, had been thinking of King Arthur with all his might. He was in love with him.

Well that was fast! (not that I'm complaining...)

#v thinks #The Once and Future King #Arthuriana #Lancelot Du Lac #Arthur x Lancelot #It's finally Lancelot time! And he does not disappoint! #this is only the 4th paragraph I look forward to where it goes from here

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T. H. White gets it!

Then was the king wonderly wroth.

#v thinks #The Once and Future King #Le Morte d’Arthur #Arthuriana #middle english #having Gwaine and his brothers set up the story of Arthur’s birth is a fun way to do it and makes it clear how everyone is related

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What's this!? The Doctor has changed into someone else?? I can only imagine what audiences thought was going on when the First Doctor regenerated, but for me this bittersweet end of an era means it's time for the long-awaited ranking of my favorite companions!

Vicki - A girl from the distant future with a sense of adventure to match the Doctor's

Barbara - A teacher from the present day (1963), never confrontational, but secretly the only competent one

Ian - He tries... he runs into danger and always has the worst hiding spots, but he means well and his relationship with Barbara is surprisingly sweet

Dodo - A girl from the present day (1965) with the best fashion sense and unfailing humor, shame she didn't get to do much

Susan - The Doctor's granddaughter, which is fascinating in itself, if only they'd explored it more, she absolutely deserves revenge for being abandoned on a post-Dalek Invasion Earth

Ben - A young sailor from the present day (1966), with a quick wit, and always ready for action, he's surprisingly fun if a bit obnoxious

Polly - She's fun and clever and so far hasn't been able to do more than get kidnapped and be afraid, sadly

Steven - An astronaut from the distant future who spent the past several years in captivity with only a stuffed panda for company, all of which was quickly forgotten in favor of being either aggressive or condescending or both

#v thinks #Classic Who #First Doctor #Vicki Pallister #Barbara Wright #Ian Chesterton #Dodo Chaplet #Susan Foreman #Ben Jackson #Polly Wright #Steven Taylor

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Merlyn put his fingers together like Sherlock Holmes

A description after my own heart!

#v thinks #The Once and Future King #Arthuriana #Merlin #Sherlock Holmes

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... I ship it...

#v thinks #The Once and Future King #Arthuriana #King Pellinore #Sir Grummore

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Was no one going to tell me that the Cybermen are traveling through space on Earth's lost sister planet??

#v thinks #Classic Who #First Doctor #Cybermen #I have so many questions...